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Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics.

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2013-12
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Anomaly, Jonny
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Abstract
Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, and the primary victims are the users themselves. Meanwhile, antimicrobial drugs that once had the power to cure infections are losing their ability to do so, compromising the health of people around the world. The thesis of this essay is that policymakers should stop wasting resources trying to fight an unwinnable and morally dubious war against recreational drug users, and start shifting their attention to the serious threat posed by our collective misuse of antibiotics.
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Journal article
Subject
Autonomy
Coercion
Criminal Law
Drugs and Drug Industry
Public Policy
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Choice Behavior
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Drug and Narcotic Control
Freedom
Government Regulation
Humans
Public Health
Street Drugs
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8372
Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1136/medethics-2012-101160
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Anomaly, Jonny (2013). Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics. J Med Ethics, 39(12). pp. 752-756. 10.1136/medethics-2012-101160. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8372.
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Jonathan Anomaly

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
I work mostly on issues at the intersection of ethics and economics, including how we should respond to the under-consumption of vaccines and the over-consumption of antibiotics, and whether the market for biomedical enhancements should be regulated in any way. More generally, my research focuses on collective action problems.  I recently co-edited the first major <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-politics-and-economics-9780190207311?cc=us&lang=en&a
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